Eric Dodds Weblog
July 6, 2025
AI will create a near-term socioeconomic gap among knowledge workers
June 23, 2025
Using Cursor to migrate my blog from WordPress to Next.js and Vercel
February 28, 2023
A pipeline stack for deeper analysis of Garmin data
August 21, 2020
Career Update: I Joined RudderStack as Director of Customer Success
January 20, 2019
What it Looks Like to Process Email with Superhuman
November 24, 2018
Quick Observations on Services Businesses (Part 2): Productization and Commoditization
November 12, 2018
Quick Observations on Services Businesses (Part 1): Scaling is Completely Different
September 1, 2018
From Maker To Manager: Making Yourself Unnecessary
February 26, 2018
The End of an Incredible Adventure with The Iron Yard
November 7, 2017
Why So Many Businesses Don't Have a Marketing/Sales Funnel
October 20, 2017
The Amazing Marketing/Sales Funnel
October 19, 2017
Writing Keeps Me Sharp
January 6, 2017
Is Google Making File Organization Irrelevant?
December 19, 2016
Productivity Hacking: The Source of Distractedness
December 15, 2016
History Repeats Itself
November 3, 2016
Is an Online Presence Mandatory? Part 3: Societal Consequences
October 27, 2016
Is an Online Presence Mandatory? Part 2: Professional Consequences
October 20, 2016
Is an Online Presence Mandatory? Part 1: Social Consequences
September 30, 2016
A Good Reminder that Startups Fail (and Thoughts on Infrastructure)
September 22, 2016
The Difficulty of Technology as a Cure-all
September 13, 2016
Maciej Cegłowski on the Danger of Data
September 6, 2016
Productivity Hacking: What Snake-oil Looks Like
August 30, 2016
A Few Photos of Clouds
August 30, 2016
Personal Update: I'm a Dad
August 30, 2016
Productivity Hacking: Notifications as Distraction-by-Default
August 22, 2016
Facebook, Photos, Privacy and Parenthood
July 25, 2016
Humans Beat Robots at Mercedes
July 20, 2016
Quotes from the Team at The Iron Yard
July 12, 2016
Do Stores Benefit from Offering Cash Back?
July 5, 2016
Technology and the Impossible
June 10, 2016
Manager as Editor
June 10, 2016
Reinventing the Mail Business with Lawn Care
April 5, 2016
Name a Product that has Achieved Product-Market Fit
March 21, 2016
Managing Up
March 10, 2016
Competition Blind Spots
November 5, 2015
Myths of Productivity: Finding the Right Tools
November 1, 2015
Myths of Productivity: Keeping Up
October 29, 2015
Productivity Requires Producing More than You Consume
October 26, 2015
Productivity Requires the Art of Triage
October 21, 2015
Productivity Requires Harnessing Focus
July 22, 2015
On Hiring a Creative Director
July 7, 2015
Dictionary.app Typeface Fix
July 6, 2015
The Age of Transparency
July 4, 2015
Productivity Requires Removing Distractions
July 1, 2015
Copy: The Devil's in the Details
June 29, 2015
Marketing Team Values
June 27, 2015
The Other Side of the World
June 24, 2015
Productivity Requires Sacrifice
June 23, 2015
Sleep, Exercise and Diet as the Foundations of Productivity
June 19, 2015
First, Know Thyself
June 16, 2015
Startup Marketing
June 15, 2015
Dictionary.app's Unfortunate Typeface
June 13, 2015
Research and the Realities of Time Worked
April 15, 2015
Chaos Behind the Magic
April 8, 2015
Productivity Hacking is Not Intuitive
April 1, 2015
Productivity Hacking: What is Productivity Hacking?
March 26, 2015
Productivity Hacking: What Would You Do With More Time?
March 13, 2015
Productivity Hacking: Introduction
February 25, 2015
Making It Count: Sleep, Exercise and Diet as the Foundations of Energy
February 16, 2015
Non-MBA Deficiencies
February 12, 2015
Christian Wiman on Technology, Anxiety and God
February 12, 2015
On Following Your Passion, Part 2
February 10, 2015
On Following Your Passion, Part 1
February 6, 2015
From the Comments: Is It Wrong or Selfish of People to Crave Fulfillment?
February 5, 2015
Should You Get an MBA?
February 5, 2015
The Challenge of Not Having a Challenge
February 3, 2015
Travel as a Lesson in Field Expediency
January 30, 2015
Customer Onboarding: Not Convinced Yet
January 29, 2015
My First Lead Climb
January 28, 2015
Letters to the Company: What We Do and Why
December 17, 2014
Merlin Mann on Company Culture and Why People Quit
December 15, 2014
There Is No Auto-Pilot
December 9, 2014
Learning a City: Walking Streets and Talking to Locals
December 6, 2014
Maine Sea
December 5, 2014
Being Head of Marketing Doesn't Mean You Have the Best Ideas
December 5, 2014
Maine Mountains
December 5, 2014
Redundant UI: Click Call to Make This Call
December 4, 2014
A Few Thoughts on Not Quitting
December 4, 2014
Making it Count: How I Consume The Internet
December 2, 2014
Business as Relationship Over Time
December 2, 2014
New Hampshire
December 2, 2014
Wendell Berry on Process and Product
November 18, 2014
Crisis Separates Leaders
November 13, 2014
Life Isn't "Ceteris Peribus"
November 11, 2014
The Difference Between Having an Idea and Owning an Idea
November 10, 2014
From Maker to Manager: When You Don't Know Everything Your Partners are Doing
November 6, 2014
What Makes an Early Stage Startup Exhilarating?
November 5, 2014
"Because I'm Too Busy" as a Cop Out Excuse
November 4, 2014
Automated Emails and Authority, Part 2
November 3, 2014
Turn Off Search Term Highlihghting In Gmail
October 31, 2014
Really Thoughtful Answers as Marketing
October 30, 2014
Finally, a Good Desktop Publishing Tool
October 28, 2014
Do People Still Check Out Books at Libraries?
October 28, 2014
Email Signatures, Onboarding and Perception of Authority
October 27, 2014
Libraries: From Consume to Create
October 23, 2014
Business, Politics and Mudslinging at the Top
October 21, 2014
Bookless Libraries and the Democratization of Information
October 15, 2014
Advertising Hype VS Reality
October 14, 2014
Sticking With Lingering To-Do's
October 13, 2014
If You're Not an Art Director, Don't Be
October 10, 2014
My Answer: Is The Iron Yard Academy Worth The Investment?
October 9, 2014
Is What You are Selling Worth the Investment?
October 7, 2014
The Changing Demographics of The Internet Will Mold It
October 6, 2014
Less Decisions for Your Brain
October 3, 2014
How Do You Refer To Your Customers?
October 1, 2014
Rewind: Creation and Chaotic Residue, Part 2
September 30, 2014
Rewind: Creation and Chaotic Residue, Part 1
September 24, 2014
Joe Dirt's Marketing Wisdom
September 22, 2014
It's the Customer's Story (Not Yours)
September 22, 2014
Paralyzed in the Face of Infinity
September 20, 2014
Reading Online VS Reading Print
September 8, 2014
I Coded My First Program
September 6, 2014
On the Road: My Hotel Work Station
September 5, 2014
Freedom to Make Things Better
September 4, 2014
Entrepreneurial or Enterprising?
September 3, 2014
Quotes Won't Revolutionize Your Business
August 29, 2014
Gears of Change: Time, Technology and Me
August 26, 2014
Videographers, Butchers and Talent
August 25, 2014
Updates on Testing DuckDuckGo
August 22, 2014
Bypassing Ad Blockers to Create a Second Chance
August 20, 2014
SMS Notifications From the Auto Shop
August 18, 2014
What Apps Are On My iPhone?
August 13, 2014
Making It Count: How I Steward Time, Attention and Technology
August 11, 2014
Thank You Culture
August 8, 2014
User Experience Win: Skype's "Install on Quit"
August 6, 2014
The Inevitable Ubiquity of the Web
August 4, 2014
Why Coffee is Nicknamed Joe
August 3, 2014
Photo: Shadow Plane
July 31, 2014
From the Comments: Can Distraction Be a Good Thing?
July 29, 2014
Making it Count: Distraction is The Enemy
July 29, 2014
Solving Scale is Hard at Every Size
July 26, 2014
At Long Last: Phone Calls from the Desktop
July 21, 2014
A Great Response to My Post About News
July 18, 2014
Comfortable in Your Own Head
July 17, 2014
Was My College Experience Valuable?
July 16, 2014
Who Designed Theses Restroom Icons, Part 2
July 15, 2014
Unequivocal Agreement is Scary
July 14, 2014
From Maker to Manager: It's Crap Because I'm Doing It
July 12, 2014
Front End Design Conference 2014
July 11, 2014
Learning and the Comfort Zone
July 10, 2014
Two Quotes About News (Or, Why I Don't Keep Up)
July 9, 2014
National Affairs on "The Coming Higher-Ed Revolution"
July 8, 2014
I Love This Company
July 5, 2014
From Idea to Production (or Sometimes I Get to Code)
July 4, 2014
Progress Without Questions
June 25, 2014
Why Footnotes?
June 20, 2014
Encouraging Compliments for Running a "Nice" Business
June 19, 2014
Diminishing Marketing Budget
June 19, 2014
Yo and the Fallacy of All Technology as Good
June 13, 2014
Testing Un-tailored Search with DuckDuckGo
June 11, 2014
The Internet as a Giant Echo Chamber for Individuals
June 10, 2014
My Grandfather, Remembering
June 9, 2014
Clever Outdoor Marketing (and Sales) Tactic from Pizza Hut
June 7, 2014
An Honest Look at "Content Marketing"
June 6, 2014
The Might and Fury of the Free World
June 5, 2014
Moderate Intelligence and Pure Grit
June 3, 2014
Letters to the Company: I Won't Be Available
May 30, 2014
More than "Yes" or "No"
May 29, 2014
The Learners Will Inherit the World
May 27, 2014
From Maker to Manager: Personal Productivity
May 26, 2014
To Normandy, To Remember
May 23, 2014
What to Expect from this Blog
May 22, 2014
A Few Photos from Vegas
May 21, 2014
From Maker to Manager
May 19, 2014
Benchmarks: Code Schools and Olympic Weight Training
May 15, 2014
Making it Count: Threads of Belief, Questions and Answers
May 14, 2014
Letters to the Company: Disagreements
May 12, 2014
On the Hunt for New Budgeting Software
May 7, 2014
A Visit to Zappos in Las Vegas
May 5, 2014
Why Do I Blog?
May 2, 2014
Pictures of The Lowcountry
April 29, 2014
Failure Means Growth
April 28, 2014
A Pirate Needs the Sight of the Sea
April 25, 2014
Who Designed These Restroom Icons?
April 24, 2014
There's Nothing New: "Empowered Consumers"
April 22, 2014
If You Want to Work in a Startup, Get Used to Everything Breaking All of the Time
April 22, 2014
The Best Plan is the One That's Happening
April 13, 2014
Airplane Propellers as a Nearly Perfect Version One
March 29, 2014
The Window Seat
March 26, 2014
Letters to the Company: Sales, Storytelling and The Iron Yard
March 26, 2014
User Experience Fail: No Ice Cream for You
March 24, 2014
Happy 92nd, Papa
March 21, 2014
Making it Count: Values, Beliefs and Precious Hours
January 20, 2014
Making it Count: Introduction
December 27, 2013
A Kid, a Jeep and The Meaning of Greatness
December 21, 2013
The Music of Western North Carolina
December 20, 2013
Red Sky by Morning
December 5, 2013
Why I Like Doing the Dishes
August 22, 2013
Gather and move nested audio files via command line
October 14, 2012
Follow Your Procrastination (Or, How I Changed Careers)
July 21, 2012
Before and After
June 18, 2012
Places to Put Things: The Cabinet
May 29, 2012
Plumbing Part 2: Fixtures
May 26, 2012
Attention to Detail: Trim
February 26, 2012
Checkered Floors: Tile
February 25, 2012
Walls of White: Bead Board, Ceiling, and Window
February 16, 2012
The Green Room: Walls of Sheetrock
February 15, 2012
Wired: The Electrical
February 14, 2012
Framed: The New Wall
February 13, 2012
Supply and Waste: Plumbing
February 10, 2012
Demolition
February 8, 2012
The Bathroom: Before
February 6, 2012
The Long List: Materials
February 5, 2012
Heavier Iron: The Cast Iron Sink
January 27, 2012
Heavy Iron: The Claw Foot Bathtub